Ingenious Wooden Contraption Lets You Play Guitar Without Learning

Do you want to play guitar, but find mashing the chords with your fingers to be painful and frustrating? Then the Chordelia Chord-Making Machine might just be for you.

The beautiful device is handmade in a little workshop in West Cork, Ireland. It attaches to the neck of a guitar with a wooden wedge. By pulling five different levers, you engage a combination of tension lines that apply pressure to rubber stoppers, which push up against the strings in the right frets to produce a chord. All you need to do is hold the lever and strum.

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In its current model, the Chordelia can play just five chords—Am, G, D, C, and Em. But you can play hundreds of songs with just those chords, and the shop is working on coming a 7-chord version of the Chordelia.

You need a standard acoustic steel-string guitar with 6 strings to use the Chrodelia, but this is the most common type of guitar and the perfect instrument for beginners. You can order one of the chord-making machines from the company's website today. And even if you are proficient at basic guitar chords, the Chordelia is a little piece of woodworking brilliance that would look great in any studio.

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